Self-report, the most widely used, gold standard measurement of pain, is crucial for pain research, diagnosis and management. However, there are currently no accurate, reliable methods for detecting dishonesty in self-reports when there is incentive for pain deception. We introduce a novel approach to detecting pain deception by analyzing performance patterns of honest and dishonest psychophysical pain testing. Warmth sensation (WST) and heat pain (HPT) thresholds were measured in healthy subjects (n=37) under two conditions: standard instruction (i.e., provide sincere reports) and instructions to simulate intense pain (i.e., provide feigned reports) with the intention of deceiving.
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